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“Hope is the thing with feathers," Emily Dickinson wrote, but my birds always get shot. They fall from the sky.”
― Claimed by Her Monsters: A Paranormal Why-Choose Romance: A Paranormal Monster Romance with Fated Mates, Found Family, Grumpy Sunshine
― Claimed by Her Monsters: A Paranormal Why-Choose Romance: A Paranormal Monster Romance with Fated Mates, Found Family, Grumpy Sunshine
“Words so easily and yet unfortunately uttered by many, be it to express their appreciation of fried bits of potatoes to sports teams on the television. Words offered so frivolously about a variety of subjects and yet can be the most difficult, most painful, most meaningful, most cherished syllables we gift another person.”
― The Hidden Library
― The Hidden Library
“I am coming to love him, in two different ways. Face to face, and word to word.”
― Divine Rivals
― Divine Rivals
“I love you,” he repeated, shaking her again. “I have for years. But if I asked you to pick, you’d choose Arobynn, and I. Can’t. Take. It.”
“You’re a damned idiot,” she breathed grabbing the front of his tunic. “You’re a moron and an ass and a damned idiot." He looked like she had hit him. But she went on, and grasped both sides of his face. “Because I’d pick you.”
― The Assassin's Blade
“You’re a damned idiot,” she breathed grabbing the front of his tunic. “You’re a moron and an ass and a damned idiot." He looked like she had hit him. But she went on, and grasped both sides of his face. “Because I’d pick you.”
― The Assassin's Blade
“I...can’t believe you have kittens.” I wiggled my fingers and the little guy strained to reach them. “What’re their names?”
Roth snorted. “That one is Fury. The white one is Nitro and the black one is named Thor.”
“What? You called these cuties something like that, but named a giant snake Bambi?”
He bent forward, placing a kiss on my shoulder. It was so fast I wasn’t sure he’d actually done it. “There’s sweetness in evil,” he said. “And remember, looks can be deceiving.”
― White Hot Kiss
Roth snorted. “That one is Fury. The white one is Nitro and the black one is named Thor.”
“What? You called these cuties something like that, but named a giant snake Bambi?”
He bent forward, placing a kiss on my shoulder. It was so fast I wasn’t sure he’d actually done it. “There’s sweetness in evil,” he said. “And remember, looks can be deceiving.”
― White Hot Kiss
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